You people that hit reply all f’ing suck! It is very rarely necessary! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Reply All function on email
- Thread starter PabloNole
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I just dropped 3 people off an email chain that were not needed cutting the list to 3 people who would actually need to be part of the discussion.
Once a decision has been made the other 3 will be informed of the outcome.
This was a welcome email to a new person joining the company. 10 people have replied all welcoming new person. A private email would suffice.
Ya, it sucks until someone higher up on the chain is mad because they weren't looped in on an email they weren't going to read anyway, then it sucks even more because the shid flows down hill.
Those 10 people should be escorted out of the office with all their **** quickly thrown into a box for them.
We get company wide emails for the company events throughout the year. Sometimes those events require folks to RSVP with how many tickets they need. It never fails, there's always at least 5-10 people that hit reply all and send the response w/ how many tickets are needed instead of just replying to the ONE person that sent the email.
Makes me want to toss my computer across the room.
Still not as bad as 100 people Reply All'ing with "WHY AM I ON THIS EMAIL I SHOULDN'T BE ON IT TAKE ME OFF"
Thankfully, we haven’t had that today. I have seen that.
Years ago Deadspin had an NCAA bracket pool contest. It was found that there was an email address included that emailed the entire group. Thousands(?) of users. Then one guy decided to reply with the "Please remove me!" email, and it spiraled from there, and remained active off and on for a few years after.
Deadspin | Reply Allpocalypse Ruins Deadspin Bracket Pool
Deadspin | Reply Allpocalypse Ruins Deadspin Bracket Pool
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For the love of God at least allow me to reply all with the damn attachments
Ooopsies!Years ago Deadspin had an NCAA bracket pool contest. It was found that there was an email address included that emailed the entire group. Thousands(?) of users. Then one guy decided to reply with the "Please remove me!" email, and it spiraled from there, and remained active off and on for a few years after.
Deadspin | Reply Allpocalypse Ruins Deadspin Bracket Pool
Deadspin | Reply Allpocalypse Ruins Deadspin Bracket Pool
My wife's work has a subscriber list of like 200,000. The email marketing coordinator quit and they merged that job into 4 other people's jobs and never taught any of them how to make "lists" so every once in a while an email that is suppsoed to go to maybe a few thousand will go to 200,000 and instead of just ignoring it, they get a lot of people calling to complain about getting emails.
This thread reminds me of a time in college when an instructor sent out a group email to all the people in the class (maybe 30 of us.) It turned into one of those "stop replaying all" ***** fests, and then 1 person typed out this long email bitching about 1 classmate and meant to hit reply to only 1 or 2 people but hit reply all. Then several people piled on.
After a while the poor classmate replied "Hey everyone, I can read this
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After a while the poor classmate replied "Hey everyone, I can read this
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A long time ago I worked for one of the big 3 engineering firms. One day the CEO sends a company wide email about some initiative or another. Kid in our office, fresh out of school, hits reply all and gives the CEO (and everyone else) his thoughts on the issue. 2 minutes later our office manager calls him into the office to discuss the unpleasant phone call he just received.This thread reminds me of a time in college when an instructor sent out a group email to all the people in the class (maybe 30 of us.) It turned into one of those "stop replaying all" ***** fests, and then 1 person typed out this long email bitching about 1 classmate and meant to hit reply to only 1 or 2 people but hit reply all. Then several people piled on.
After a while the poor classmate replied "Hey everyone, I can read this
Post of the week.
There's also some law about those doing this having the least useful reply.
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Not the same but related,... Ongoing group texts that you have zero interest in really suck.
Since we are telling funny electronic communications stories there is a legendary one in the post Covid era where teams calls were new that just about every engineer in Florida knows of.
A large fueling station client had huge call with engineers and consultants on work for a bunch of stations getting built across SE. The client had a very attractive lawyer for them doing a presentation and one of the consulting engineers messages another engineer in his firm how hot she was. And what he would love to do to her. Only problem was Cletus was in the meeting chat. They had to stop meeting and senior guy from consultant engineer apologize. Apparently the dude was walked out of his office within 90 minutes.
A large fueling station client had huge call with engineers and consultants on work for a bunch of stations getting built across SE. The client had a very attractive lawyer for them doing a presentation and one of the consulting engineers messages another engineer in his firm how hot she was. And what he would love to do to her. Only problem was Cletus was in the meeting chat. They had to stop meeting and senior guy from consultant engineer apologize. Apparently the dude was walked out of his office within 90 minutes.
it's very enjoyable constantly adding my coworker to emails he has no business being involved in bc it rages him out
I have to click through so many pop ups just to do basic orders at times. There has to be a way for the email to have a similar prompt pop up "did you really mean to hit 'reply all'?" before sending